The Cat Fanciers’ Association, CFA, is the World’s largest
registry of pedigreed cats. CFA currently recognizes 40+ pedigreed breeds
for Championship status. Each of those breeds is unique with its own
identifying characteristics, history, traditions and traits. Each breed
also has a Breed Council with is comprised of individuals who have individual
experience in their specific breed and are charged with communicating the needs
of their breed through the elected breed Council Secretary to the CFA Board.
The CFA Breed Councils were established to act primarily as an advisory board to
the CFA Board on CFA Breed Standards. This includes issues regarding showing,
registration and the breed standard itself.

Eligibility requirements, the procedures for submitting
proposed amendments to the CFA Board and a description of the history of the
Breed Councils in CFA and their objectives can be found at http://cfa.org/client/breedcouncilindex.aspx

Please note - It has come to our attention that there are a
number of people who are advertising native cats from Egypt for sale as Egyptian
Maus. Although CFA will register descendants from imports from Egypt, they do
not accept or recognize cats that have not been proven over generations. The
breed Egyptian Mau is accepted in most registries. Unless the kitten is
registered or registerable in one of the major registries and can trace its
lineage through a pedigree it is not, in truth considered an Egyptian Mau.
Please keep this in mind when looking for a kitten.

Feline
Genome project - search for the silver identifier - looking for samples from
as many Egyptian Maus as possible. For details on how to submit click above link
or contact Melanie Morgan for help.

PK Deficiency in Egyptian Mau - We would
very much like to put together a database of Cats within the breed so that we
can track status if possible and would love it if you would share your results
so that we can try to track all of this. You can send results to
emau@emaucats.com . We also
encourage all breeders to test their cats before breeding so that we can
effectively manage this and ideally breed away from it without decimating our
genepool
Link to test

rescue cats -

While most Egyptian mau breeders
act responsibly and do their best to take care of their cats/kittens as well as
provide assistance, support and advice for their pet owners, we periodically
find ourselves in a position where there are Egyptian Maus in desperate need of
new homes. Providing a home for one of these special cats can often be a
win/win situation with the opportunity to do a good deed AND get the chance to
experience the wonder of this incredible breed.